Power Drain at Time Over

Just wondering if anyone remembers this about the older versions, VF2 specifically, and also wondering if anyone has noticed if it still exists in VF5 and VF5FS:

The way power drains when you get hit doesn't go down in a chunk at one time, it drains. What I mean is that you can see the life bar slide down very quickly. In VF2 this happens even slower. Therefor, if you, let's say, get hit by Jacky's kickflip when there is .01 seconds left, it will only take out a small amount of power. I remember actually winning because of this a few times back in the day.

Anyone remember this or still see it happening? However, time overs hardly ever happen since VF changed the round time to 45 seconds.